Archive for March, 2013
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The Final Frontier
15 Mar 2013If you’re into Icelandic and astronomy (and hey, who isn’t? :)) there’s a cool site at http://www.stjornufraedi.is/ filled with news,…
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Spring Is Here!
14 Mar 2013Forget about the swallows returning to Capistrano…the plovers have returned to Iceland, spring is here! It’s just a short story…
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Don’t Mess With Icelandic Cats
13 Mar 2013If you’re a cat person, Reykjavík is your town. I remember on our first trip to Iceland sitting in the…
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But I Don’t Feel Old
12 Mar 2013Well, today is my birthday…what shall we talk about? 🙂 Til hamingju með afmælið! – Happy Birthday! (Recall that the…
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Check And Mate
11 Mar 2013March 9th would have been Bobby Fischer’s 70th birthday, as reported by RÚV and other news sites. Iceland will always…
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A Horse Of Course
10 Mar 2013One aspect of language learning that people either love or hate is grammar. I happen to enjoy grammar 🙂 The…
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Let’s Do That Again
08 Mar 2013In this post we’re going to look at the prefix ‘endur-‘ in Icelandic, which generally corresponds to ‘re-‘ in English.…
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Buried In Snow
07 Mar 2013Vonskuveður indeed. Most of Iceland was hit by a large snowstorm Wednesday, which wreaked havoc with the roads of course.…
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Stop, It’s Dangerous!
06 Mar 2013I really like to study words that are similar in appearance (homonym-like), mainly because they tend to confuse me 🙂…
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That Typical Icelandic Weather
05 Mar 2013The title of this article on Vísir.is is Bara þetta venjulega íslenska leiðindaveður …which is more or less Just that…